The White Sox not giving up a first-inning grand slam in the biannual series would help too.

Jiménez is still in Double-A Birmingham — possibly at a Southern League Waffle House, where James Fegan found him earlier in the week — for this series, though in all likelihood he’ll be up for the second leg of the season series in late September.

The Sox got off to a bad start Friday as the Cubs kept rolling with a 11-2 win. The Cubs (20-15) have won four in a row, while the Sox (9-26) have lost their sixth straight and 10th out of their last 11 games.

This series isn’t going to be close, but think ahead a few months, when the Cubs...